SOLUTION: four and three eighths divided by one and three fourths?

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Question 339950: four and three eighths divided by one and three fourths?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055) About Me  (Show Source):
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four and three eighths divided by one and three fourths?
I will assume you know how to change a mixed fraction to an
improper fraction, and how to change an improper fraction to
a mixed number.  If you don't know how, post again asking
how.

4%263%2F8%22%F7%221%263%2F4

Change to improper fractions:

35%2F8%22%F7%227%2F4

Change division to multiplication by inverting the second fraction:

35%2F8%22%D7%224%2F7

Cancel the 7 into the 35 getting 5 on top:

 5
cross%2835%29%2F8%22%D7%224%2Fcross%287%29

Cancel the 4 into the 8 getting 2 on the bottom:

 5
cross%2835%29%2Fcross%288%29%22%D7%22cross%284%29%2Fcross%287%29
 2

So what's left is

5%2F2

Change that to a mixed number:

2%261%2F2

Edwin